How To Get The Most For Your Health Food Money
If you bought a tin of paint would you throw away the part that had settled out at the bottom of the can? I hope not because that has most of the colour in the paint. But you're doing the same thing with your food.
Economise by hanging on to the healthiest part of your food. Save on medical bills. Avoid the loss of weeks off work.
Apples
Almost half of the vitamin C content is just underneath the skin. You also get fibre to keep you regular and fight cancer, Quercetin which is a powerful antioxidant, procyanidins that fight cancer, proanthocyanidins that keep your heart healthy, and flavanoids that fight cancer. Are you made of money or are you going to hang on to all that good stuff? See the warning about agricultural poisons.
Berries
The skin of the berries removed during home-made juice preparation should also be used in cooking or just blended with the juice. There are considerable amounts of healthy phenolic compounds in the skin of the berries. Some people argue that you should throw away the juice and use the skins that are left, but see the warning about agricultural poisons.
Carrot
Many people do not realize that numerous phenolic compounds are located in the skin. Is your time valuable to you? How much time do you waste removing the skin of carrots that you have paid for, just so that you can pay the doctor when you get sick?
Fruit And Vegetable Juices
Ostentatious rich people use to take one bite out of a food delicacy then throw away the rest, just to show how rich they were. Are you going to do the same, or are you going to blend the pulp back into the juice after you prepare it? Just remember the warning about agricultural poisons.
Grapes
Reverse-juicing is advised for grapes. You throw away the juice which is loaded with calories, and eat the pulp which is full of nutrients. Unfortunately if the grapes aren't organically grown you are also concentrating the poisons that were sprayed onto the skins.
Lemons
The yellow part of the skin (zest) of lemons has most of the limonoids in the fruit. You could pay the Oncologist half a million dollars for cancer treatment before you die, or you could just eat all of the lemon, including the outer skin. Hide the flavour by blending the whole fruit with some raisins (including the healthy seeds) to sweeten it.
Oranges
The same applies to oranges and lemons. In addition most of the vitamin C in oranges is in the skin. Are you going to pretend you are rich by throwing it out?
Pears
Most of the vitamin C in pears is concentrated in the skin, as is some of the fiber, so peeled, canned pears are less nutritious than fresh. You have actually paid someone to remove the best parts of the pears then add artificial colourings, flavours and sweeteners.
Many children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder became normal when they were given fresh organic food with no preservatives or other additives. How much do medicines for that complaint cost?
Potatoes
Antioxidants, soluble proteins, and fibre are all in the skins. The rest of the potato is worthless so you can throw it away unless you are trying to fatten yourself up. Or feed it to pigs to fatten them up.
Tomatoes
Most of the lycopene and other antioxidants, carotenoids, phenolic acids, flavonoids and vitamin C are in the skins. Your doctor would like you to boil it up into ketchup so as to release more lycopene from inside the cell walls, and destroy the other nutrients.
You as a savvy buyer will use a juicer to split open the cell walls, then blend the pulp back into the juice, to drink it raw. That way you don't waste any of the other nutrients. Oh, blend in some coconut oil to taste because lycopene and carotenoids are absorbed best in the presence of fat and coconut oil doesn't make you fat. Choose a coconut oil that either tastes of coconuts or has no taste - not a rotten taste.
Rice
Brown rice takes longer to cook than polished white rice, but most of the goodness is in the brown stuff that is removed. Will you let yourself be robbed just to save a little time? Can't you do something else while the rice is cooking?
Taste of Skins
Some of these skins have a strong flavour which you may find unpleasant. The answer is to blend with something more pleasant. Orange zest for example tastes great if you blend it with the rest of the orange. If it is still not sweet enough for your liking, add a handful of raisins (the seeds and skins are good for you) or a banana.
Agricultural Chemicals Warning
Non-organically grown apples and soft fruits are heavily sprayed. If organic alternatives are not available you are better off peeling them even though vital nutrients in the skin will be lost. Apple cores concentrate agricultural poisons so don't use them if not organically (without agricultural chemicals) grown.
If you can't buy organic produce you can buy special surfactants intended for washing your fruit and vegetables. Most of the chemicals don't wash off in plain hot water.
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